Insignia pennant



June 5, 1928. 1,672,134

B. F. PITT ET AL INSIGNIA PENNANT Filed Feb. 5, 1927 A TTORNEY.

Patented June 5, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN F. PITT AND ENOS R. MCKENZIE, F TOPEKA, KANSAS.

INSIGNIA. PENNANT.

Application filed February 5, 1927.

Our invention relates to an insignia pennant.

The object of our invention is to provide an insignia pennant having the name of some particular locality placed thereon as identifying means for tourists and others.

A further object of our invention is to provide a staff for the insignia plate having a rigid attaching means therefor when the plate is properly positioned.

A still further object of our invention is to provide a staff having detachable top member so that the pennant may be removed from the staff.

A still further object of our invention is to provide a staff having a clamp pivotally connected to the lower end thereof, the clamp to be attached to the neck of an automobile radiator or may be attached to a horizontally positioned shaft or the like, and the pivot connection made rigid by a clamping means to support the shaft radially.

A still further object of our invention is to provide means by which the pennant may 2 be turned on the shaft for the convenience of filling the radiator and will automatically retract by the current of air when the car is driven, engaging with its stationary supporting means.

These and other objects will hereinafter be more fully explained.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing a fragmentary part of an automobile radiator to which the pennant is attached.

Fig. 2 is a transverse view, partly in section for convenience of illustration.

The mechanism herein disclosed consists of a pennant 1 having the insignia placed thereon indicated by the word Topeka. The letters may be cut through the metal as a stencil, printed or embossed thereon. The said. pennant is hingedly connected to the staff 2 by means of loops 3 and 4, said loops being formed by bending around the staff and lapping back on the pennant and rigidly. attached thereto, the said loops having sufficient play to turn or slide longitudinally on the staff.

Rigidly positioned on the staff is a stop member 5 having an extension radially posi- Seria1 No. 166,206.

tioned as at A. Positioned in the extension is a slot B as means to receive the lower corner of the pennant as shown by dotted lines C in Fig. 1, the object of which is to prevent rotation of the pennant on the staff until said pennant israised sufiicient to dis engage from the slot, at which time it may be revolved away from the vertical axis of the neck of the radiator to prevent obstruction while filling the radiator.

Threadedly engaging on the upper end of the staff is a ball 7, having a bead 8, integral therewith and greater in diameter than said staff functioning as a stop to prevent removal of the pennant therefrom. The space between the top ofthe pennant and the head as at D is means to allow an upward movement of the pennant for disengagement of the lower edge thereof from the slot B.

Pivotally connected to the lower end of the staff is "a clamp 9, said clamp being bifurcated and annular to engage on the neck of a radiator or other supporting means, and clamped firmly thereto by a bolt 10 engaging through laterally extending ears 11 that are integral with the ends of the clamp. The pivot connecting means for the staff is arranged by flattening the lower end thereof as at 12 to engage in thejaws 13 of the clamp. The said jaws and flat portion of the staff are centrally perforated in registry to receive a screw 14 having a wing nut 15 threadedly engaging on the end thereof as tensioningmeans to bind said members 12 and 13 firmly together when the staff is properly positioned relative to the clamp.

We do not confine the mechanism herein disclosed to automobile traffic alone as it may be applied along the streets when spe cial occasions are being celebrated, the pennant being the one bearing the name of its respective occasion, itbeing understood that a number of pennants are in store having the name of the convention or the like in session within the locality.

Such other modifications and application may be made as lie within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Y In an insignia pennant, in combination, a staff having a removable ball axially engaging on the top of the staff, and a stop having a vertically disposed slot, the stop spaced 5 downward from the top and rigidly connected to the stafli, a pennant having a loop near each corner to slidably and rockably engage on the staff between the ball and the stop, the lower edge of the pennant to engage in the slot of the stop. 10

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures. v

BENJAMIN F. PITT. ENOS R. MCKENZIE. 

